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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2674664, member: 19463&quot;]If your camera has no exposure controls either for manual exposure or to boas exposure toward underexposure, you are stuck with shooting on gray carpet.&nbsp; Most cameras costing over $50 have one or both of these controls but there are thousands of models.&nbsp; If you do not have a suitable camera, I&#039;d consider buying one or just giving up on the matter.&nbsp; The gray rug is not all that bad but you still could shoot on a plain gray background with the coin suapended over it high enough that you would get an out of focus gray.&nbsp; However you will never get a perfect match of the two sides of the coin using a camera with no manual controls. At some point, it may be necessary to ask if you want better pictures or not.&nbsp; You do not need a $1000 camera but a ten year old model which cost ten times as much then as the same thing today may not be worth the effort.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/nikon-coolpix-camera-990-d1-15-/401272403085?hash=item5d6db2f48d:g:1f8AAOSwZVlXp128" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/nikon-coolpix-camera-990-d1-15-/401272403085?hash=item5d6db2f48d:g:1f8AAOSwZVlXp128" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/nikon-coolpix-camera-990-d1-15-/401272403085?hash=item5d6db2f48d:g:1f8AAOSwZVlXp128</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I do not know if the used camera in the sale above works or not.&nbsp; It may be a complete rip off by a criminal for all I know.&nbsp; However, it is the exact model I bought in 2000, used to take the Failmezger plates and is still working today.&nbsp; It is not anything like as good a camera as I am using now but what I paid $1000 for in 2000 is now worth $26 .... really?&nbsp; On the other hand, most charities won&#039;t even accept donations of TV&#039;s or computers that cost $1000 in 2000 so that is life as we now know it.&nbsp; I notice some others of the model being sold as not working so don&#039;t go buying a camera without care.</p><p><br /></p><p>The image below was one taken for the book with my Nikon 990.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]596339[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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